News that has caught Rachael Babin’s eye this week
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Mindfulness-based stress reduction diminishes chemo brain
Participation in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program yields robust and sustained improvement in cancer-related cognitive…
Why we still don’t have personalised medicine, 15 years after sequencing the human genome
By Bryony Graham, University of Oxford. The completion of the first draft of the human genome…
Obesity contributes to metastasis in ovarian cancer patients
Ovarian cancer is a deadly disease, one that’s hard to detect until it has progressed…
Black women less likely to benefit from early chemotherapy, study shows
It is well documented that black, Hispanic, and Asian women typically develop advanced-stage breast cancer…
Scientists identify promising new melanoma drug
A new drug discovered by scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) may…
Detecting cancer cells before they form metastases
Single cancer cells migrate with blood flow through the body before they settle in new…
Promising drug combination for advanced prostate cancer
A new drug combination may be effective in treating men with metastatic prostate cancer. Preliminary…
Here’s what you need to know about menopausal hormone therapy and cancer risk
By Emily Banks – Australian National University. The use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) doubles the risk of…
The New Gene-Editing Technique That Reveals Cancer’s Weaknesses
By Ed Yong – The Atlantic. CRISPR can finally tell us which human genes are…
Prioritising patients over profits
Australia’s first ‘for-benefit’ pharmaceutical company directing 100% of profits to patient support & medical research…